Download or read book Comanche Come On written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire of the Summer Moon written by S. C. Gwynne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” (The New York Times Book Review). Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being. Hailed by critics, S. C. Gwynne’s account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Empire of the Summer Moon announces him as a major new writer of American history.
Download or read book The Comanche Empire written by Pekka Hämäläinen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study that uncovers the lost history of the Comanches shows in detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they were defeated in 1875.
Download or read book The Comanches written by Ernest Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comanche Moon written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic four-volume cycle that began with Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove, is completed with this brilliant and haunting novel—a capstone in a mighty tradition of storytelling. Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, now in their middle years, are just beginning to deal with the enigmas of the adult heart—Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe; and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. Two proud but very different men, they enlist with a Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief; Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief; and a deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for torture. Comanche Moon joins the twenty-year time line between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, following beloved heroes Gus and Call and their comrades-in-arms—Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker—in their bitter struggle to protect an advancing Western frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life. At once vividly imagined and unflinchingly realistic, Comanche Moon is a sweeping, heroic adventure full of tragedy, cruelty, courage, honor and betrayal, and the culmination of Larry McMurty's peerless vision of the American West.
Download or read book Comanche Dawn written by Mike Blakely and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-05-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on the Comanches, the first Indians of the Plains to take advantage of the horse, brought by the Europeans. The resulting mobility helped them become a great nation and their story is told through the eyes of Horseback, a skilled mounted warrior. (From WorldCat).
Download or read book Comanche Indians written by Caryn Yacowitz and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history, customs, and culture of the Comanches.
Download or read book Being Comanche written by Morris W. Foster and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award (American Society for Ethnohistory) Comanches have engaged Euro-Americans' curiosity for three centuries. Their relations with Spanish, French, and Anglo-Americans on the southern Plains have become a highly resonant part of the mythology of the American West. Yet we know relatively little about the community that Comanches have shared and continue to construct in southwestern Oklahoma. Morris W. Foster has written the first study of Comanches' history that identifies continuities in their intracommunity organization from the initial period of European contact to the present day. Those continuities are based on shared participation in public social occasions such as powwows, peyote gatherings, and church meetings Foster explains how these occasions are used to regulate social organization and how they have been modified by Comanches to adapt them to changing political and economic relations with Euro-Americans. Using a model of community derived from sociolinguistics, Foster argues that Comanches have remained a distinctive people by organizing their face-to-face relations with one another in ways that maintain Comanche-Comanche lines of communication and regulate a shared sense of appropriate behavior. His book offers readers a significant reinterpretation of traditional anthropological and historical views of Comanche social organization.
Download or read book The Comanche written by Willard H. Rollings and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Comanche Indians.
Download or read book Being Comanche written by Morris W. Foster and published by . This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award (American Society for Ethnohistory) Comanches have engaged Euro-Americans' curiosity for three centuries. Their relations with Spanish, French, and Anglo-Americans on the southern Plains have become a highly resonant part of the mythology of the American West. Yet we know relatively little about the community that Comanches have shared and continue to construct in southwestern Oklahoma. Morris W. Foster has written the first study of Comanches' history that identifies continuities in their intracommunity organization from the initial period of European contact to the present day. Those continuities are based on shared participation in public social occasions such as powwows, peyote gatherings, and church meetings Foster explains how these occasions are used to regulate social organization and how they have been modified by Comanches to adapt them to changing political and economic relations with Euro-Americans. Using a model of community derived from sociolinguistics, Foster argues that Comanches have remained a distinctive people by organizing their face-to-face relations with one another in ways that maintain Comanche-Comanche lines of communication and regulate a shared sense of appropriate behavior. His book offers readers a significant reinterpretation of traditional anthropological and historical views of Comanche social organization.
Download or read book Uncle Comanche written by J. A. Benner and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Texas in the 1840's, young Sul Ross runs away from home and, joining up with his friend Sergeant Hanse Mason, visits a friendly Comanche village, rescues ferry passenger from a flood, and is invited to run the ferry and study with the school teacher widow of the former ferry owner.
Download or read book Comanche Heart written by Catherine Anderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson comes the second novel in the Comanche series—a stirring story of courage, passion, and unforgettable love... Years ago, Amy Masters escaped the fury of the Texas plains for a new life as a teacher in the golden hills of Oregon, where she found contentment—if not happiness. Then, out of the shadows, comes Swift Antelope, the Comanche warrior to whom she once pledged her heart when she was no more than a girl. Claiming that he’s given up his violent ways as a gunslinger, Swift has arrived to take the woman he feels is rightfully his, the woman who once swore to honor a sacred and unbreakable pact. But Amy’s brutal past has made it impossible for her to trust any man—even if it’s the bold warrior who has haunted her dreams, the only man she ever loved, the Comanche heart she can’t live without.
Download or read book Comanche Ethnography written by Thomas W. Kavanagh and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma, a team of six anthropologists met with eighteen Comanche elders to record the latter?s reminiscences of traditional Comanche culture. The depth and breadth of what the elderly Comanches recalled provides an inestimable source of knowledge for generations to come, both within and beyond the Comanche community. This monumental volume makes available for the first time the largest archive of traditional cultural information on Comanches ever gathered by American anthropologists. Much of the Comanches? earlier world is presented here?religious stories, historical accounts, autobiographical remembrances, cosmology, the practice of war, everyday games, birth rituals, funerals, kinship relations, the organization of camps, material culture, and relations with other tribes. Thomas W. Kavanagh tracked down all known surviving notes from the Santa Fe Laboratory field party and collated and annotated the records, learning as much as possible about the Comanche elders who spoke with the anthropologists and, when possible, attributing pieces of information to the appropriate elders. In addition, this volume includes Robert H. Lowie?s notes from his short 1912 visit to the Comanches. The result stands as a legacy for both Comanches and those interested in learning more about them.
Download or read book Aftermath of Defeat written by Gene Killion and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Will Cole, late of the Confederate army—and an ex-Texas Ranger prior to the war—is released from a Union prisoner of war camp along with about a hundred other rebels. A stopover in Dallas results in meeting and being hired by a seemingly upscale family, the Clayhorns from Tennessee, to guide their party and four heavily loaded Conestogas to farmland purchased by them near San Pecos. While still in Dallas, attempts are made on the lives of the Clayhorns by four would-be assassins who are then killed by Cole. Later, during the trip west, Will senses something wrong with the Clayhorns’ demeanor, but is distracted by a trio of thugs dogging their trail. When he confronts the thugs, Cole recognizes the three as a familiar old outlaw and his two equally evil sons. He and Frank Clayhorn disarm the men and take them to the sheriff in Cleburne. Things get murkier from there. One Clayhorn turns out to be a traitor to the South. Another Clayhorn is later accused of having helped finance the assassination of President Lincoln. After Cole and party reach Ft. Stockton, the climax encompasses the essence of the Texas Frontier at that time. Northern and Southern Comanches, Apaches, and Kiowas--all natural enemies of each other--act as one to attack the fort!
Download or read book The Handbook of Texas written by Walter Prescott Webb and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
Download or read book Comanche Moon written by Anita Mills and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a tough Texas Ranger to melt a hardened heart in this “brilliant western romance” from the author of the Fire Series (Rosanne Bittner, author of Caress). Amanda Ross returns from her Boston finishing school to claim the Texas ranch her parents died fighting to protect. Determined to protect the land that has been in her family for generations, Amanda resents the Comanche people for taking away her loved ones. Clay McAlester may be a Texas Ranger, but he identifies most strongly with the Comanche tribe who raised him. A proud man brought up by a proud people, he has little sympathy for a woman filled with nothing but hate. But when Amanda’s fiancé abandons her in her hour of need, it is McAlester and a nearby Comanche camp that comes to her aid. Will Amanda learn forgiveness in the arms of this fierce and fearless man, or will her anger consume her? “Superb . . . Grabs you by the throat and won’t let go . . . I loved it!” —Joan Johnston, New York Times–bestselling author of Surrender
Download or read book Cinematic Comanches written by Dustin Tahmahkera and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries Comanches have captivated imaginations. Yet their story in popular accounts abruptly stops with the so-called fall of the Comanche empire in 1875, when Quanah Parker led Comanches onto the reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. In Cinematic Comanches, the first tribal-specific history of Comanches in film and media, Parker descendant Dustin Tahmahkera examines how Comanches represent themselves and are represented by others in recent media. Telling a story of Comanche family and extended kin and their relations to film, Tahmahkera reframes a distorted and defeated history of Comanches into a vibrant story of cinematic traditions, agency, and cultural continuity. Co-starring a long list of Comanche actors, filmmakers, consultants, critics, and subjects, Cinematic Comanches moves through the politics of tribal representation and history to highlight the production of Comanchería cinema. From early silent films and 1950s Westerns to Disney's The Lone Ranger and the story of how Comanches captured its controversial Comanche lead Johnny Depp, Tahmahkera argues that Comanche nationhood can be strengthened through cinema. Tahmahkera's extensive research includes interviews with elder LaDonna Harris, who adopted Depp during filming in one of the most contested films in recent Indigenous cinematic history. In the fragmented popular narrative of the rise and fall of Comanches, Cinematic Comanches calls for considering mediated contributions to the cultural resurgence of Comanches today.
